Senior Agentic AI Engineer; Remote

Lead Dev team across onshore and Offshore

Hands on Dev, Design and architecture based on the client requirement

Support QA and UAT team

• AWS Lex or Any Other Deterministic Bot
• AWS Bedrock and Bedrock Agent Core
• AWS Strands SDK / Framework
• Voice Bot and Chat Bot development
• Agentic AI application development and orchestration
• Intent modeling, conversation design, prompt engineering, and NLU concepts
• LLM application development, tool calling, function calling, and agent workflows

Cloud & Infrastructure (MUST) Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including:

• Amazon Bedrock
• Bedrock Agent Core
• AWS Lambda
• Amazon S3
• DynamoDB
• API Gateway
• IAM
• Cloud Watch

Knowledge of secure AI/LLM deployment patterns and cloud-native agent architectures - Will be a Plus

• Hands-on experience building production-grade Generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock.
• Experience developing and orchestrating AI agents using Bedrock Agent Core and AWS Strands.
• Experience with LLM orchestration frameworks, tool integrations, and multi-agent workflows.
• Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures (Optional)
• Experience with prompt engineering, model evaluation, grounding, and agent performance tuning.
• Experience securing enterprise AI agents including guardrails, prompt injection mitigation, data protection, access controls, and responsible AI controls.
• Experience optimizing LLM agents for accuracy, latency, scalability, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting production AI agents and conversational AI systems.

• AWS Certifications such as AWS Certified AI Practitioner, AWS Certified AI Engineer, or equivalent.
• Experience with multi-agent systems and advanced agent orchestration patterns.
• Experience using AI tools such as Git Hub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude, or similar development accelerators (One of the tools is a MUST).
• Experience with conversational analytics, agent evaluation frameworks, and bot performance optimization (MUST).
• Experience implementing Responsible AI, AI governance, compliance, and enterprise AI security controls.

Applications will be accepted until 10/23/2026.

The annual salary for this position is between $ 100,000– $ 130,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits:
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer:
The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.